Senior Manager Software Engineering Digital Merchandising - Irving, United States - 7-Eleven

Description

About this opportunity:

• Build consumer-centric product information, catalog, content & merchandizing management systems for digital shelf to create compelling shopping experience at various digital sales channels.
• Integrate & aggregate various source systems including MDM systems, PIM systems, partner with internal & external cross functional team to create a single standardized product data store for consumption through APIs & data federation.
• Leads teams in the development, implementation, and support of the systems for a best-in-class online purchase and delivery experience.
• Understands the systems/applications that his/her team develops technologically/functionally, aligns with a technical roadmap of the department & Enterprise, works with the team to continuously inspect the current state, and brings innovative ideas to improve. Makes sure the architecture/design decisions taken by the team are aligning to 7-Eleven standards keeping in mind performance, scalability, resiliency, etc.
• Develops technical talent and leadership capabilities in team members and ensures a highly motivated team through coaching and mentoring focusing on accountability & ownership.
• Implements systems to maximize usability, accessibility, and customer experience. Leverages internal and external APIs, databases, and other data sources.
• Oversees the scheduling, control, and progress of system design, development, and installation activities.
• Develops trusted and open relationships with key business partners at Manager and Director levels and works closely with and manages vendor partner relationships.
• Coordinates between internal and external resources, ensuring effective communication between all groups and individuals involved in projects.
• Leads all projects under the rules and guidelines of the Project Management Office (PMO). Ensures all PMO documentation is produced to high standards.
• Oversees project financials and ensures adherence to 7-Elevens fiscal policies.

Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree in computer science or related field.
• Minimum of years total professional experience in IT development with 5 years in the retail industry with high volume customer-facing 24/7 online storefronts.
• Minimum of 2 - 3 years of experience in a managerial position in a technology group with a proven track record for business capability delivery and talent development.
• Hands-on experience implementing systems using eCommerce platform, product data, marketing data & transaction data (having experience with package solution like Commerce Tools, Salesforce is a plus).
• Experience in leading the teams working on MACH (Microservices, APIs-first, Cloud-native, and Headless) architecture using , Java, Spring boot.
• Experience with traditional RDBMS like Oracle and NOSQL like Cassandra or MongoDB or Apache Ignite.
• Experience in Public Cloud platform AWS or GCP or Azure.
• Experience with developing and managing applications across multiple data centers is a plus.
• Excellent written and verbal communication, presentation, problem-solving and analytical skills, including the ability to effectively communicate complex technical concepts and designs to a broad range of people.
• Strong experience in using Agile (Scrum / Kanban / SAFe) project development methodologies.
• Willingness to learn and adapt to changing business and technology landscapes.
• Must have a contagious work ethic; including high sense of urgency to resolve issues quickly, creatively and efficiently.